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osus, and this name has since been applied to both the Macaque of 

 Japan and the Indian Macaque afterwards named arctoides by I. 

 Geoffrey. There are but three very short tailed Macaques to which 

 Cuvier's name could, probably, have been applied: the Japanese 

 species; the arctoides Geoff.; and the nemestrinus Linn. The latter 

 with its black cap can be at once removed as answering neither 

 Cuvier's figure nor description ; and it would not be at all likely, though 

 possible, that, at the time Cuvier published his description, a speci- 

 men of a Macaque from Japan would come into his possession, as 

 Japan was closed to the world at that date, and the exportation of 

 specimens of Natural History would be most improbable. Cuvier does 

 not state where Duvaucel saw the animal he drew, and we have no 

 information on that point. However, both description and figure 

 fairly represent the animal from Burma and Cochin China, etc. and 

 the latter does not exhibit the long loose fur of the Japanese Macaque, 

 but shows the short more compact fur of the better known species. 

 The evidence, therefore, would seem to show that Cuvier's species is 

 the Macaque afterwards described by I. Geoflfroy, and not the one from 

 Japan. 



Anderson in Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1874, p. 652, states that he 

 compared a specimen of his M. brunneus with Geoffroy's type of M. 

 arctoides in the Paris Museum, and that these are not the same, but 

 does not indicate in what the difference exists. He farther remarks 

 that M. brunneus is more closely allied to M. speciosus of Japan than 

 it is to M. arctoides. In the volume for the year 1876, p. 332, however, 

 according to Sclater, he retracts his previous opinion and now considers 

 M. brunneus and M. arctoides the same. A specimen in the British 

 Aluseum from the Zoological Society has no tail, and small callosities, 

 and resembles very much Gray's »j^/ano/u.y ( !). It is a young individual 

 with the last molar in both jaws not having yet appeared, the upper 

 canines still represented by the milk teeth, and only the points of the 

 lower canines visible in the mandible. In color it is dark brown or chest- 

 nut with the dorsal region quite black. The hairs on head, flanks and 

 arms are but faintly annulated. There is no tail at all, and there is a 

 crest of hair on back of head, and the callosities are small and shaped 

 something like a parallelogram ; so that the skin resembles very much 

 a young Cynopithecus, but the skull has not the broad rostrum of the 

 members of that genus, and is that of a young macaque, so if there has 

 been no mistake, and the skull really belongs to the specimen, the 

 example must be referred to Pithecus, otherwise I should consider it 

 a Cynopithecus nicer juv. The specimen was presented by the 



